Re: Time dilation and constriction in special relativity

[pvalev <pvalev@BAS.BG>]

--- Stephen Speicher <sjs@COMPBIO.CALTECH.EDU> wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Pentcho Valev wrote:
>
> > I am going to analyse the situation in which, in the
transformation
> > t' = px + qt,
> >
> > the coefficient p is different from zero. This assumption leads
to such
> > a chaos in the time variation between the two inertial systems
that the
> > argument leading to this chaos amounts to redictio ad absurdum.
> > Therefore p = 0 is the only reasonable solution to the problem.
>
> Several people went to the trouble of identifying the error in
> your previous formulation, and you have yet to either refute
> their argument or acknowledge the error you made. That being the
> case, why do you forge ahead with a new formulation, one which,
> ubdoubtedly, repeats a similar form of error as in the prior one?

This is not the case. In my previous postings, I tried to show that
the term px is a "foreign body", called it ILLEGAL etc. However my
arguments were perhaps not very convincing. I hope my last argument
is convincing.

Pentcho